Student Forcibly Removed, Israeli Security Intimidation at Protest outside Union Event hosting Israeli Ambassador
Entertainment·21st February 2022“Wednesday, Death Meditation”: Review Neily Raymond Image Description: yellow promotional poster for Wednesday, Death Meditation. “It doesn’t stop, until it really stops.” This is the only... Read More
Profile·19th November 2021Quartet: In Conversation with writer Sam Spencer Jessica Kaye Image Description: four students who are involved in a black and white photo with the word “Quartet” in the background. ... Read More
Entertainment·4th February 2015Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Review ✮✮✮✮ It’s exactly what it says in the title. Josh Dolphin and Penny Cartwright have adapted (well, not so much... Read More
Entertainment·17th November 2014Preview: Monkey Bars Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan I’m not a great fan of kids, I must admit – I much prefer dogs (I’ve been told this isn’t... Read More
Entertainment·1st May 2014Waiting and anticipating Burton Taylor’s Godot Anna Zanetti The most interesting feature of this production of the famous play by Samuel Beckett is the importance given to... Read More
Entertainment·5th March 2014Breathing corpses comes to life Olivia Sung ✮✮✮✮ Contemporary playwright Laura Wade stands accused of a facility for language – something any company aiming to put on... Read More
Entertainment·24th February 2014Family Values gets a glowing Revue Emily Holman The Hilary Revue Burton Taylor Studio 4th week ✮✮✮✮✮ Hahahahahahaha. I wish that could be my review. This is funny.... Read More
Entertainment·25th January 2014Faithful to Pinter’s Nobel Betrayal? Betrayal is an oddly heavy-handed name for a play which gives so little away. Neither soapy nor moralising, it is... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2013Pericles gets there in general Sam Lane ✮✮✮ In 1629, no less a critic than Ben Jonson decried Pericles as “stale”. Despite the valiant attempts of cast... Read More
Entertainment·20th November 2013More Funny actually is Alice Troy-Donovan ✮✮✮✮✮ The Buttless Chaps are back: four performers, 18 sketches, and a touch of oddly hilarious German musical to finish.... Read More
Entertainment·28th November 2021A snapshot of life on Election Night: 2nd May 1997 Review Poppy Atkinson Gibson Image description: The cast sat outside on a pavement Through all my dark internet and backdoor connections (the Entertainment section... Read More
Entertainment·27th November 2016Prepare to Leave Your Comfort Zone In The Republic of Happiness: A Review Katrina Gaffney This family drama turned dystopia is a four star performance for Katrina Gaffney. Arriving at the Burton Taylor for the... Read More
Entertainment·4th February 2015Potosi Review William Shaw ✮✮✮ After Richard Parker and The Dumb Waiter last week, it is perhaps easy to make the case that the... Read More
Entertainment·29th October 2014Review: Bouncers Saskia Mair ✮✮✮ A small space, pounding music, flashing lights. Sound familiar? At the Burton Taylor the cast of John Godber’s... Read More
Entertainment·9th March 2014Interview with Pterodactyls: more than just the bare bones OxStu Stage Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver is a new project funded by the Oxford Revue and comes to the Burton Taylor Studio... Read More
Entertainment·4th March 2014Review: Replay Daniel Bottiglieri ✮✮✮ In the first 10 minutes, I became terribly worried that I would be unable to write a review. I... Read More
Entertainment·6th February 2014By no means just another Normal play Alice Troy-Donovan “It’s an intense hour-long romp” says Misha Pinnington, who plays the Düsseldorfian Ripper Peter Kurten in Normal. The show, written... Read More
Entertainment·4th December 2013Hilarious sketch – go and see Kvetch Emily Holman ✮✮✮✮ I laughed and laughed and as I cycled home I was still laughing. Kvetch, on at the Burton Taylor... Read More
Entertainment·21st November 2013Endgame off to a promising start Matthew Davies ‘There’s a humanity in Endgame,’ director Will Felton tells me, ‘which is often overlooked.’ This is a bold claim to... Read More